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Blocked Process script for deadlock correction

This script was created to find an application problem that was causing SQL Server blocked processes. The BlockedProcess table is created to log both the blocker and blocked processes. The sp_BlockedProcess stored procedure is created to handle the situation by: inserting all processes affected by the blocking, notifying the blocking application user, emailing the admins […]

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2005-12-01 (first published: )

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Monitor Database and Log Growth

Most DBA's would like to be notified when automatic database file growth occurs. This script will log file growth. It will not log file shrink but could be easily modifed to do so.Script does the following: 1. create tables to store server list, current & historical file sizes and actual growth for each database file […]

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2005-11-29 (first published: )

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sp_GetDirInfo

Returns information about the files in the specified directory and/or subdirectories (if requested) and the total bytes for those files. Directory names are excluded so that the total bytes can be computed using the compute clause but you can specify that they be included at the expense of no total bytes. This sp uses the […]

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2005-11-25 (first published: )

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DTS Transformation Query

To transfer all the DTS package from one SQL Server to another.Create a DTS package.Select source and destination SQL Servers Create a DataPumptaskGo to disconnected editIn the DTS Data transformation task Set a) DestinationObjectName: [msdb].[dbo].[sysdtspackages] b) SQL Statement : SELECT a.name, a.id, a.versionid, a.description, a.categoryid, a.createdate, a.owner, a.packagedata, a.owner_sid FROM msdb.dbo.sysdtspackages AS A INNER JOIN […]

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2005-11-24 (first published: )

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